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... She acknowledges contextual grammatical features to play a significant role in the use of the two modals and classifies lexical verbs that occur with them semantically but does not highlight any specific constructions that are dominant in her learner and native speaker data. Chen's (2010) comparative analysis of epistemic expressions (modal verbs may and might, epistemic adjectives and adverbs) in L1 Chinese learner and native English writing focuses on quantitative differences in learner and native speaker use of expressions of epistemic modality and on the development of learners' pragmatic competence. While offering interesting insights into interlanguage pragmatics, the study does not systematically analyze the patterns that the two selected modals appear in in the L1 and L2 datasets. ...
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January 2010